Journal articles: 'Westminster abbey'

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Helten, Leonhard. "Utrecht und Westminster Abbey." Marburger Jahrbuch für Kunstwissenschaft 22 (1989): 35. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1348624.

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Jenkins, Susan. "The politics of public monuments: parliamentary commissions of monuments for Westminster Abbey in 1798." Sculpture Journal 30, no. 1 (January 1, 2021): 9–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/sj.2021.30.1.2.

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In the last quarter of the eighteenth century the British Parliament voted public money to pay for a number of monuments to public figures in Westminster Abbey and St Paul’s Cathedral. This was a critical period in the move towards creating a pantheon to commemorate national heroes. The central role of Westminster Abbey in national life had never before been challenged, but from around 1798, and certainly from the memorialization of Admiral Lord Nelson in 1805, Parliament’s commissioning of monuments shifted its focus to St Paul’s Cathedral to create a national mausoleum for memorials to military and naval heroes. This article explores the significance of this transitional period in the history of Westminster Abbey for the Abbey itself and for the development of a national school of British sculptors, looking specifically at the process of commissioning the monuments to Captain Montagu by John Flaxman and Captains Harvey and Hutt by John Bacon the Elder in 1798.

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Payne, Matthew. "THE ISLIP ROLL RE-EXAMINED." Antiquaries Journal 97 (September 2017): 231–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003581517000245.

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The mortuary roll of John Islip (1464–1532), Abbot of Westminster, is the finest example of its kind to survive in England. The drawings, possibly by Gerard Horenbout, afford the only views of the interior of Westminster Abbey before the Dissolution. The discovery of eighteenth-century copies of an unknown, coloured version of the roll provides important new evidence for both the circumstances of the production and the later history of both rolls. It also provides, for the first time, an authentic colour view of the interior of Westminster Abbey in the late medieval period, and new information on its decoration.

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Mason, Emma. "Westminster Abbey and the Monarchy between the Reigns of William I and John (1066–1216)." Journal of Ecclesiastical History 41, no. 2 (April 1990): 199–216. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s002204690007439x.

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The lavish patronage bestowed on Westminster Abbey by Edward the Confessor, and later by Henry III, ensured its status as the church which pre-eminently enjoyed royal favour and was designated by each as his mausoleum. During the intervening reigns the prestige of the abbey was less assured. The present paper seeks to examine the extent to which the genuine charters issued from, or for, Westminster between 1066 and 1216 testify to any special relationship with the monarchy.

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Lewis, Suzanne. "Henry III and the Gothic Rebuilding of Westminster Abbey: The Problematics of Context." Traditio 50 (1995): 129–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0362152900013209.

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Henry III's role in the creation of a new and powerful visual culture in thirteenth-century England remains uncontested, as does the dominant position of Westminster Abbey as its architectural centerpiece. Rivaling the soaring magnificence of the most splendid cathedrals, the thirteenth-century rebuilding of the Benedictine abbey church provided a dramatic setting for the anointing and coronation of English kings as well as for the new shrine of St. Edward the Confessor (see figs. 1 and 2). The Gothic rebuilding of Westminster Abbey is usually thought to have been financed entirely by a single ruler, but there may in fact have been two agents of patronage, abbot as well as king. Rather than having been initially determined in 1245, when Henry III's rebuilding plan is first documented, the project more probably developed and changed over a much longer period, from 1220 to 1245. Fundamental to the problem of Henry's role as patron, then, is the question of whether the rebuilding of Westminster Abbey was conceived as a single project in 1245 or whether the undertaking began earlier and became more ambitious in the course of time. Indeed, we might ask whether the royal persona of Henry III as patron was itself a calculated representation constructed by his advisors and the abbots of Westminster and documented by such biased chroniclers as Matthew Paris.

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Walsham, Alexandra. "Westminster Abbey Reformed, 1540–1640." English Historical Review 120, no. 488 (September 1, 2005): 1085–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cei367.

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Harvey, John H. "Westminster Abbey: The Infirmarer's Garden." Garden History 20, no. 2 (1992): 97. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1587038.

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Thorne, John C. "A Visit to Westminster Abbey." Journal of Education 52, no. 9 (September 1990): 147–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002205749005200901.

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Sharp, John. "Cosmati Pavements at Westminster Abbey." Nexus Network Journal 1, no. 1-2 (June 1999): 99–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00004-998-0008-y.

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Ullendorff, Edward. "An Ethiopic Inscription in Westminster Abbey." Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 2, no. 2 (July 1992): 167–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1356186300002352.

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Early in the spring of 1990, Professor Josef van Ess of Tübingen University came to visit me at my home at Oxford. In the course of conversation he asked me about an Ethiopic memorial tablet he had seen in Westminster Abbey. To my chagrin I had to own that the existence of such an inscription was quite unknown to me. In the hope of removing (or at least of mitigating) this stain of inexcusable ignorance, I hastened to the Abbey the following week – only to find it closed to visitors on account of a broadcast recording performance. I then wrote to the Assistant Librarian of Westminster Abbey (Mrs Enid Nixon) who proved to be immensely helpful and knowledgeable and was kind enough to answer my queries and to provide me with precious information. I have since been able to inspect the monument in situ.

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MERRITT, J. F. "The Cradle of Laudianism? Westminster Abbey, 1558–1630." Journal of Ecclesiastical History 52, no. 4 (October 2001): 623–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022046901008764.

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Westminster Abbey has been surprisingly neglected by early modern historians. This article attempts to recreate a full sense of the institution and its character during this period, in order to build it into our picture of the post-Reformation religious landscape. The abbey, it is argued, continued to be an important religious institution, while its high-profile ceremonialism, coupled with strong secular and religious jurisdiction over the surrounding locality, may have served as an inspiration for the emerging Laudian movement. Nevertheless, the abbey and its school were never exclusively proto-Laudian in their religious character.

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Crack, Peter. "Westminster Abbey’s Quattrocento Altarpieces." Religion and the Arts 25, no. 3 (June 21, 2021): 263–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685292-02503002.

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Abstract Between 1935 and 1948, three devotional paintings, all Italian and from the fifteenth century, were installed in London’s Westminster Abbey. While these pictures are individually well known to art historians, it has yet to be asked how and why they came to be displayed in the modern church. This paper reconstructs that history and interrogates the motivations of those involved. It also asks what liturgical functions, if any, were assigned to these erstwhile Roman Catholic objects in their adopted Anglican surroundings. The findings show that a confluence of antiquarian sensibilities, a specific vein of Anglicanism, and patronal motivations that recall the original commissioning of these works of art, all came to bear on what were remarkable episodes in the afterlives of these pictures and in the history of Westminster Abbey.

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Thomas, Christine D., and Isaac Gitonga. "Mathematical Lens: Mathematics in the London Eye." Mathematics Teacher 106, no. 3 (October 2012): 172–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.5951/mathteacher.106.3.0172.

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London is a city with striking Old World architectural beauty. In stark contrast to Westminster Abbey and the Westminster Bridge stands the London Eye (see photographs 1 and 2). This landmark was featured prominently in the television broadcasts of the Olympic Games in August 2012.

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Coles, Richard. "Priestly prayer and pastoral ministry." Theology 122, no. 1 (December 21, 2018): 22–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0040571x18805910.

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Payne, Matthew, and Richard Foster. "THE MEDIEVAL SACRISTY OF WESTMINSTER ABBEY." Antiquaries Journal 100 (June 25, 2020): 240–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003581520000177.

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This paper draws upon documentary, visual and archaeological evidence to chart the development of the sacristy of Westminster Abbey from its construction as one of the earliest parts of the abbey’s thirteenth-century rebuilding to its demolition in the mid-eighteenth century − a story that reflects wider changes of religious and political history.

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Physick, John. "Men of Science in Westminster Abbey." Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 15, no. 4 (December 1990): 373–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/isr.1990.15.4.373.

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Jack, Sybil M. "Westminster Abbey Reformed: 1540-1640 (review)." Parergon 22, no. 2 (2005): 231–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/pgn.2006.0024.

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Barr, William. "John Rae to be honoured in Westminster Abbey–but not for discovering the northwest passage." Polar Record 51, no. 2 (August 4, 2014): 219–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247414000527.

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ABSTRACTSince at least 2001 Ken McGoogan has been claiming that in discovering Rae Strait in 1854 John Rae also discovered the final link in the northwest passage. This claim is false, in that a substantial section of the passage further north, some 240 km in length (between Bellot Strait and where James Clark Ross had found the north magnetic pole) was still undiscovered in 1854. On the basis of McGoogan's false claim Mr. Alistair Carmichael, MP for Orkney and Shetland, has been pursuing a campaign to have a corrective plaque installed near the Franklin cenotaph in Westminster Abbey to the effect that Rae, and not Franklin, discovered the northwest passage. The Dean of Westminster and the Abbey authorities have decided that a simple tablet with the words ‘John Rae; arctic explorer’ but with no further elaboration, will be installed in the Abbey near the Franklin cenotaph.

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Foster, Richard. "A Statue of Henry III from Westminster Abbey." Antiquaries Journal 91 (June 30, 2011): 253–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003581511000096.

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AbstractIt is generally assumed that no medieval figure sculpture has survived from the north front of the nave of Westminster Abbey after three and a half centuries of successive restorations. This assumption was challenged by the appearance at auction in 2007 of a life-sized statue of Henry iii bearing some of the stylistic hallmarks of the late thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The statue, according to its vendor, was acquired from the masons’ yard at Westminster Abbey in 1980, during the most recent major restoration of the north front carried out by Peter Foster, Surveyor of the Fabric until 1988. It was removed from the site with the consent of the contractors. Until the auction, it had been chained to a wall in the vendor's garden. The art dealer who bought the figure identified it as Henry iii from its close resemblance to the thirteenth-century tomb effigy of the king in Westminster Abbey. He purchased the statue in anticipation of it proving to be of a similar date. The purpose of this paper is to review the documented history of the figure sculpture on the north front of the abbey's nave and find a place for this statue within it.

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Cook, Christopher D. "A Bibliography of Westminster Abbey: A Guide to the Literature of Westminster Abbey, Westminster School and St Margaret's Church Published Between 1571 and 2000. Westminster Abbey Record Series 4. Tony Trowles." Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 102, no. 3 (September 2008): 411–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/pbsa.102.3.24293639.

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MERRITT, J. F. "Reinventing Westminster Abbey, 1642–1660: A House of Kings from Revolution to Restoration." Journal of Ecclesiastical History 67, no. 1 (December 18, 2015): 122–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022046914002000.

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While historians are familiar with the destruction wrought on the nation's cathedrals during the Civil War, the rather different fate experienced by Westminster Abbey – an important symbolic building that tied together royal and religious authority – has been strangely neglected. This article argues that the Abbey played an important and distinctive role in the religious and cultural politics of the nation during the 1640s and 1650s. It uncovers the Abbey's role in helping to legitimise successive non-monarchical regimes and ultimately explains how efforts to ‘reclaim’ the Abbey at the Restoration formed part of broader efforts to renegotiate and reinterpret the nation's past.

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Cook, C. D., and M. M. Foot. "An Additional Incunabulum in Westminster Abbey Library." Library 15, no. 2 (June 1, 2014): 185–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/library/15.2.185.

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Heale, Martin. "Guide to the muniments of Westminster Abbey." Archives and Records 34, no. 2 (October 2013): 272–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23257962.2013.850409.

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Pritchard, Frances. "Two Royal Seal Bags from Westminster Abbey." Textile History 20, no. 2 (January 1989): 225–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/004049689793700275.

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Page, R. I. "An Old English fragment from Westminster Abbey." Anglo-Saxon England 25 (December 1996): 201–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0263675100002003.

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Westminster Abbey Muniment 67209 is a strip of parchment sliced from an Old English manuscript, perhaps to be dated to the first half of the eleventh century (pl. IX a and b). It has top and bottom margins preserved, possibly in full, but no part of either side margin. The height of the fragment is 268mm, with top margin measuring 32mm (recto)/34mm (verso) and bottom 46mm (recto)/45mm (verso). Thus the height of the text block is c. 190mm. The strip is unevenly cut, so its width varies, top, 38mm, bottom 42mm, minimum 31mm.

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Crosby, Mark. "William Blake in Westminster Abbey, 1774 –1777." Bodleian Library Record 22, no. 2 (October 2009): 162–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/blr.2009.22.2.162.

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Braček, Tadej. "Fact, Myth and Legend in Matthew Arnold’s Westminster Abbey." ELOPE: English Language Overseas Perspectives and Enquiries 4, no. 1-2 (June 16, 2007): 99–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/elope.4.1-2.99-106.

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The paper deals with the multilayered elegy “Westminster Abbey;” which was not given a lot of attention by Matthew Arnold’s critics. The poem is dedicated to Arnold’s life-long friend Dean Stanley; who was; like Arnold himself; “a child of light.” The term refers to their common fight against Philistinism in the English society of the time. As the poem is about a real person; it contains real data; such as excerpts from Stanley’s life; described in the form of praise. However; the poem also introduces the old Saxon legend of consecration of the Abbey; namely the consecration by the light; performed by the First Apostle (St Peter) himself. In addition to the legend; Arnold also used some classical Greek allusions to depict the late Dean’s character. In one of the allusions; Stanley is associated with Demophon; whose immortality was never achieved due to the fault of another human; and in the second he is transformed into an everlasting oracle of the Abbey using the Trophonius; a builder of Delphi; metaphor. All elements of the poem form a homogenous eulogy; making it worthwhile reading for English scholars and students; and possibly a candidate for the English poetic canon.

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Foster, Richard. "A TALE OF TWO GABRIELS." Antiquaries Journal 95 (August 7, 2015): 351–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003581515000141.

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This paper examines the context of two nineteenth-century images of the thirteenth-century statue of the Angel Gabriel in the Chapter House of Westminster Abbey. One, by John Wykeham Archer, was previously unidentified; the other, by Elizabeth, Lady Palgrave, was misidentified.

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Tatton-Brown, Tim. "Westminster Abbey: Archaeological Recording at the West End of the Church." Antiquaries Journal 75 (September 1995): 171–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003581500073005.

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Recent recording work on the masonry of the West Front of Westminster Abbey is here described. The later medieval documentary evidence for the rebuilding of the western half of the nave (in the fourteenth, fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries) is also re-assessed and a new architectural history for the whole of the west end of the Abbey church is proposed. It is also suggested that the core of the lower fifty feet of the western towers dates from the twelfth century, and that the western porch and lower windows in the tower were added in about 1340.

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Martin, G. H. "Review: A Bibliography of Westminster Abbey: A Guide to the Literature of Westminster Abbey, Westminster School and St Margaret's Church Published between 1571 and 2000." Library 7, no. 3 (September 1, 2006): 339–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/library/7.3.339.

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Buchanan, Alexandrina, Tim Tatton-Brown, and Richard Mortimer. "Westminster Abbey: The Lady Chapel of Henry VII." Sixteenth Century Journal 36, no. 2 (July 1, 2005): 486. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/20477379.

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Altschul, Michael, and Emma Mason. "Westminster Abbey and Its People, c. 1050-1216." Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies 30, no. 2 (1998): 260. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4053528.

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Woodman, George. "A Bibliography of Westminster Abbey: A Guide to the Literature of Westminster Abbey, Westminster School and St Margaret's Church Published Between 1571 and 20002006353Tony Trowles. A Bibliography of Westminster Abbey: A Guide to the Literature of Westminster Abbey, Westminster School and St Margaret's Church Published Between 1571 and 2000. Woodbridge: Boydell Press 2005. xxiii+374 pp. £50 $90, ISBN: 1 84383 154 6 Westminster Abbey Record Series, 4." Reference Reviews 20, no. 7 (October 2006): 9–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/09504120610691439.

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Luxford, Julian. "Some Medieval Drawings of St Swithun." Hampshire Studies 73, no. 1 (November 1, 2018): 175–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.24202/hs2018009.

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This article examines three drawings of the head of St Swithun made in the late 13th and early 14th century. The drawings were devised and put into registers of documents created in the royal exchequer at Westminster, where they functioned as finding-aids. As such, they are unusual examples of religious imagery with no religious purpose, and throw some light on prevailing ideas about Winchester cathedral priory at the time they were made. Their appearance was possibly conditioned by their maker's acquaintance with head-shaped reliquaries: this matter is briefly discussed, and a hitherto unremarked head-relic of St Swithun at Westminster Abbey introduced.

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Rees, Lawrence, and Michael J. T. Lewis. "A FRAGMENT OF COSMATESQUE MOSAIC FROM WIMBORNE MINSTER, DORSET." Antiquaries Journal 94 (April 23, 2014): 135–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003581514000225.

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It has hitherto been supposed that, north of the Alps, the elaborate medieval mosaic work known as Cosmatesque was confined to Westminster Abbey. An example with glass tesserae, however, has now come to light from Wimborne Minster, Dorset. This paper explores the circumstances of the rediscovery there in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries of pieces of ‘rich mosaic’, describes the surviving fragment and compares it in style and function to counterparts in Rome and in the Confessor's Chapel at Westminster. It concludes that it dates, like those at Westminster, to the 1270s or 1280s. It suggests that it adorned the shrine of Wimborne's Saxon founder, St Cuthburga, and that the patron who commissioned it was most likely Henry de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, lord of the nearby manor of Kingston Lacy and close associate of Edward i.

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Palliser, D. M. "Review: Westminster Abbey: The Lady Chapel of Henry VII." English Historical Review 120, no. 485 (February 1, 2005): 129–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cei018.

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Montagu, Jeremy. "The restored Chapter House wall paintings in Westminster Abbey." Early Music XVI, no. 2 (May 1988): 239–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/earlyj/xvi.2.239.

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Blockley, Kevin. "Westminster Abbey: Anglo-Saxon Masonry Below the Cosmati Pavement." Archaeological Journal 161, no. 1 (January 2004): 223–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00665983.2004.11020577.

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Goodall, John. "The Jesus Chapel or Islip's Chantry at Westminster Abbey." Journal of the British Archaeological Association 164, no. 1 (September 2011): 260–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/174767011x13184281108243.

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Rice, J. A. "Did Haydn attend the Handel Commemoration in Westminster Abbey?" Early Music 40, no. 1 (February 1, 2012): 73–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/em/car116.

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GAY, HANNAH. "No ‘Heathen's Corner’ here: the failed campaign to memorialize Herbert Spencer in Westminster Abbey." British Journal for the History of Science 31, no. 1 (March 1998): 41–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s000708749700318x.

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Recently, while reading papers left by the chemist Raphael Meldola (1849–1915), I came across seventy-two letters that relate to a 1904 campaign, led by Meldola, to have a memorial tablet for Herbert Spencer placed in Westminster Abbey. A list of those who eventually signed Meldola's petition to the Dean of Westminster can be found in David Duncan's Life and Letters of Herbert Spencer. The Meldola Papers include letters from some, but not all, of the signatories, from people who refused to sign, and from one or two who agreed to sign, but whose names do not appear on the published list. The surviving correspondence is probably incomplete, as can be inferred from references in the existing letters and from the fact that the Meldola Papers appear to have been somewhat haphazardly collected. Together, the letters show how Spencer's work was viewed by some of Britain's leading intellectuals, shortly after his death in 1903. They reveal that the details of Spencer's work were largely forgotten and that Meldola's correspondents were divided on whether Spencer had been simply a controversialist or had done something worthwhile. Even those (the majority) who believed the latter were unable to articulate exactly what was worthwhile in Spencer's work.This paper records some of the content of the letters as well as some details of the memorial campaign and of the people involved. My main purpose is to bring these interesting letters to light. James Moore has written of the successful effort to have Charles Darwin buried in Westminster Abbey and of the subsequent campaign for an Abbey memorial plaque, and for a statue to be placed in the Natural History Museum in South Kensington. The unsuccessful campaign on behalf of Spencer, twenty-two years later, provides an interesting comparison. It is not my purpose fully to explore the cultural implications. However, the letters suggest that this and one or two other avenues of inquiry might be worth pursuing.

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Payne, Matthew, and Warwick Rodwell. "EDWARD THE CONFESSOR’S SHRINE IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY: ITS DATE OF CONSTRUCTION RECONSIDERED." Antiquaries Journal 97 (September 2017): 187–204. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003581517000269.

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This paper re-evaluates the evidence for the dating of Edward the Confessor’s shrine at Westminster Abbey, which has been the subject of debate for many years. The paper presents a new argument that the manuscript evidence for a later date is based on an identifiable scribal error, locates the source of this error and postulates an alternative original reading of the inscription on the shrine pedestal.

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Heyman, Jacques. "An observation on the fan vault of Henry VII Chapel, Westminster." Architectural Research Quarterly 4, no. 4 (December 2000): 357–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1359135500000440.

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A close inspection was made of the vault of Henry VII Chapel, Westminster Abbey, when it was scaffolded for repair and maintenance in 1994–95. Defects were seen which appear to be peculiar to fan vaults, and this paper attempts to explain these defects. The discussion involves an understanding of the behaviour of masonry, from the simplest arch form to barrel vaults, rib vaults and the complex fan structure, with an examination of the ‘pathology’ of these forms.

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Hill, Kevin D. "A Hertfordshire Demesne of Westminster Abbey: Profits, Productivity, and Weather." Agricultural History 76, no. 1 (January 1, 2002): 118–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00021482-76.1.118.

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HORRALL, SARAH M. "A POEM OF IMPOSSIBILITIES FROM WESTMINSTER ABBEY MS 34/3." Notes and Queries 32, no. 4 (December 1, 1985): 453–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/nq/32-4-453.

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Howlett, David. "On John Sharp’s Review of Westminster Abbey: The Cosmati Pavements." Nexus Network Journal 7, no. 2 (November 2005): 107–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00004-005-0026-y.

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Payne, Matthew, and Warwick Rodwell. "EDWARD THE CONFESSOR’S SHRINE IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY: THE QUESTION OF METRE." Antiquaries Journal 98 (September 2018): 145–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003581518000574.

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In an earlier paper that looked at the dating of Edward the Confessor’s shrine at Westminster Abbey and which was published in volume 97 of The Antiquaries Journal, the authors suggested that a scribal error in the recording of the original inscription by the fifteenth-century monk Richard Sporley may have led to the incorrect date of 1279 being given for the construction (or, at least, completion) of the shrine. As a result of the debate aroused by that earlier paper, the authors have now reconsidered and slightly amended their original argument.

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McGoogan, Ken. "Defenders of Arctic orthodoxy turn their backs on Sir John Franklin." Polar Record 51, no. 2 (October 2, 2014): 220–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247414000692.

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ABSTRACTWilliam Barr's article on John Rae presents quite the spectacle (Barr 2014). Barr paints a picture of eminent British historians, staunch defenders of Arctic orthodoxy, scurrying around to deny Rae his rightful recognition and stumbling into an abyss of self-contradiction. In their anxiety to keep Rae in his ‘proper place’ at Westminster Abbey, Barr and his friends have repudiated Sir John Franklin's claim to being the discoverer of the northwest passage – the claim they sallied forth to defend.

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Kendell, Robert E. "The National Health Service celebrates its 50th birthday." British Journal of Psychiatry 173, no. 1 (July 1998): 1–3. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjp.173.1.1.

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The National Health Service (NHS) was born on 5 July 1948, after a prolonged and difficult labour, and in 1949 it cost the Treasury all of $433 million, or 3.5% of Britain's gross domestic product. In 1997/98 it cost the Treasury $44203 million, 5.6% of gross domestic product, and on 5 July this year it celebrates its 50th anniversary with parades, speeches, television programmes, symposia, much nostalgia and a service of thanksgiving in Westminster Abbey.

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Rosser, Gervase. "Richard Mortimer, Guide to the Muniments of Westminster Abbey. (Westminster Abbey Record Series 7.) Woodbridge, UK: Boydell Press, 2012. Pp. xiv, 123. $45. ISBN: 9781843837435." Speculum 89, no. 1 (January 2014): 222–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0038713413003874.

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